80th Anniversary of Founding of Workers’ Party of Korea
October 10, 1945

Important Projects Celebrate Party Founding

State-of-the-art Pyongyang General Hospital

Many significant projects undertaken to meet the needs and well-being of the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been completed in advance of the 80th anniversary celebrations of WPK’s founding. At its Eighth Congress in 2021 the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) adopted a plan with a focus on regional economic development. Subsequently, the 10th session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly held on January 15, 2024 gave regional projects priority through the 20×10 Regional Development Policy. These include plans for the building of factories in 20 cities and counties and large-scale offshore model farms to increase seafood production by 2034, with some projects completed and others underway.

The aim of the 20×10 Policy is to raise the overall living standards of the people in these areas and establish models for future development in the people-centred socialist economy of the DPRK. The government’s plans also include the construction of hospitals and health facilities, recreational facilities and grain distribution centres in various regions.

These initiatives are in addition to the 50,000 new apartments that have been completed in Pyongyang and more than 25,000 new housing units that have been built across the country, upgrading housing in rural areas and providing free housing to people who had lost their homes due to flooding. All housing in the DPRK is publically-owned and available at no cost to the people.

Groundbreaking ceremony and preparation of the grounds for 10,000-apartment complex in Hwasong area of Pyongyang, February 16, 2025.

New villages built in Thaehung-ri and Unha-ri of Yangdok County, South Phyongan Province, to improve living conditions of working people.

Key to the successful completion of these projects has been the WPK’s mass mobilization of the Party’s regional organizations, construction technicians, and soldiers of the Korean People’s Army. They work closely with people at the local level to ensure that their needs are incorporated into the new developments.

Under the slogan “Let Us Help the People!” Korean People’s Army construction units have completed or are in the process of completing factories and other facilities in Usi, Tongsin, Kyonsong, Orang and other counties. In addition to building factories and other facilities, as part of the Party’s afforestation plans, tens of thousands of trees and shrubs of various types have been planted to enhance the physical appearance of the new facilities.

The Korean Central News Agency reports that along with new rural and urban development, workers in various industries including steel and coal, electric power, building materials, forestry and other sectors of the national economy have stepped up production. Those involved directly in production for the 20×10 Plan are working hard to ensure that materials needed for the new construction are delivered in a timely manner.

In addition to implementing the plans discussed above, the WPK is creating other models. The Pyongyang General Hospital, a state-of-the-art hospital, was officially inaugurated by Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the WPK and President of State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the WPK. The hospital was built despite great difficulties caused mainly by the decades-long U.S. blockade and interference against the DPRK. It will serve as a model to elevate and modernize medical facilities across the DPRK, all of which provide the people with free and highest quality health care.

The Sinpho City Offshore Farm, one of the new projects completed in the past year, which serves as a model for the development of other offshore fish and seafood farms. Located in the Phungo-dong area of South Hamgyong Province it was inaugurated December 28, 2024.

A second large-scale offshore farm is being built in Ragwon County of South Hamgyong Province with the groundbreaking for the project taking place February 16, 2025.

A new factory, part of the development of regional industry, in Jaeryong County for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy on January 7, 2025.

(With files from KCNA. Photos: KCNA.)

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